- The Death of Ted Kennedy: The Brother Who Mattered Most, Time Magazine, August 26, 2009.
2. You would need to be Panglossian optimist to see progress here. Mr Obama baldly told the Israeli premier, Binyamin Netanyahu, that if he was unprepared to give ground on small demands, such as a freeze in settlement construction, he would have to face bigger ones, such as final-status issues: borders, Jerusalem and the return of refugees.
The Likud leader wants to engage in these talks even less than he wants to consider a settlement freeze, and on that issue Mr Obama is not budging. He stated that the UN refused to accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. So Mr Obama is playing hardball.
- ‘A new era of engagement’, Guardian.co.uk, September 23, 2009.
3. McNamara said it’s time for Obama to play hardball with NATO members.
“The one thing we have to be excited about is he has credibility. He needs to start leveraging it,” she said, adding that Obama should start making phone calls to European leaders and use his ambassadors to mount pressure.
“I hope NATO comes out of this with a more realistic attitude about what it should do,” she said. “I hope Obama is putting his credibility and legitimacy behind his asking for more resources. He can’t be afraid to ask.”
- NATO Sits on Sidelines While U.S. Mulls Mission in Afghanistan, FoxNews.com, September 22, 2009.
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